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Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist
At this year’s CITRENZ/NACCQ conference we’re introducing Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist. This promises to be a fast paced, visual, interactive collaborative celebration of computing research. You are invited to participate (even if you know nothing about computing or research!). A Pecha Kucha sees the fast paced presentation of ideas – each presenter has […]
Upcoming workshop
June 22, 2010
I’ve been asked to lead a full day workshop at the 2nd Annual New Zealand Higher Education Summit. The workshop will develop the context and strategy for sustainability in education. This fits really well into the conference as a whole that aims to explore the factors that underpin the sector’s success in making tertiary […]
Posted in: conference
Green IT: Challenge for designers
June 20, 2010
A few years back I wrote a paper about marketing computing programmes – promoting courses of study that is (rather than either selling programs or programs that sell things). In that paper I talked about how badly our prospectuses do at promoting the career of computing to potential students. Instead of careers with a focus […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, marketing
Simpa retrospective slide show
June 1, 2010
Here’s our Simpa talk from Museums and the Web: The full text is here: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/mann/mann.html
Posted in: SimPa
A world without sustainability?
May 31, 2010
“It’s pretty, but is it art?” asks the Devil in Rudyard Kipling’s The Conundrum of the Workshops. The Dunedin foreshore has recently had the addition of a set of giant carved molar teeth, funded by a public art grant from the Council. Much of the Dunedin public is up in arms – “they’re hideous” claim […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 29, 2010
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